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Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards

posted by martyb on Saturday December 08 2018, @04:26PM   
from the What-harm-could-a-lie-do dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

After VW was outed for falsifying environmental data in its cars hundreds of thousand of VW vehicles were taken off the road now sitting in storage sites. Hundreds of thousands of cars now lie in lots in the Mojave Desert, a shuttered suburban Detroit football stadium, and a former Minnesota paper mill in America alone. These vehicles are now in the open slowly breaking down with pollutants entering the environment. Is the the modern cost of corporate greed? What can we do to ensure this never happens again?

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• my father always disconnected his airbags my father always disconnected his airbags (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:49PM (1 child)

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:49PM (#771650) Homepage Journal

  Because Mom is so short she has to sit on a pillow when she drives.

  This led Dad to assert that an airbag deployment would kill her.

  I don't know either way but he was convinced of it, and was a top-notch engineer.

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• Re:my father always disconnected his airbags (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @01:14AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @01:14AM (#771731)

  "Because Mom is so short she has to sit on a pillow when she drives."

  But her legs are quite long?

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